Filip Forsberg #9 of the Nashville Predators scores the winning goal during the shootout against goaltender Roberto Luongo #1 of the Florida Panthers at the BB&T Center on February 8, 2015 in Sunrise, Florida. The Predators defeated the Panthers 3-2 in a shootout.
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Filip Forsberg #9 of the Nashville Predators scores the winning goal during the shootout against goaltender Roberto Luongo #1 of the Florida Panthers at the BB&T Center on February 8, 2015 in Sunrise, Florida. The Predators defeated the Panthers 3-2 in a shootout.
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The Panthers took a 2-0 lead into the third after scoring twice in the second period.

Tomas Fleischmann got Florida on the board with a great play as he intercepted a loose puck in the Nashville zone and zipped a shot past backup Carter Hutton midway through the second.

“We let that second point slip away,’’ Fleischmann said. “And that’s not good.’’

Six minutes later, 19-year-old Aaron Ekblad scored Florida’s second goal by pouncing on a loose puck left by Jimmy Hayes’ attempted wraparound.

With the Predators looking like a team which played the day before — in Tennessee, no less — it appeared Florida was in complete control.

But Nashville took advantage of its two power-play chances in the third and scored twice on just four shots on goal in the entire period.

Florida general manager Dale Tallon was incensed at the officiating crew afterward as he felt his team didn’t get the calls the visitors did.

Most egregious, perhaps, was Gudbranson taking the butt-end of Mike Fisher’s stick into his lower regions at the end of the third. Yet there was no spearing call — or any type of call against the Preds.

“The officials were good, there were no issues there at all,’’ coach Gerard Gallant said. “We didn’t play well enough in the [third]. I thought we were real good in the first two. We weren’t bad in the third, but we gave them two scoring chances and they scored on both of them. They were grade A chances.’’

In the shootout, the Predators scored on their first two shots, but Roberto Luongo stopped the third to force an extra round.